It is a curious feature of the left that they are the most fervent and the most certain when asking you to disbelieve that which you can plainly see with your eyes, and to believe that which you manifestly cannot. So it is that you are not to believe there is a violent form of Islam in the world, and likewise you must take their word for it that climate armageddon is lurking just the day after tomorrow. And it is why they ask if you would be so kind as to disregard the destruction in Hamburg, Germany that attends the G20 summit this year.

There is a violent side to leftism that they deny, as there is a violent side of the right that is also denied. In the case of the left, and especially with regard to the GXX summits, it’s practically a holiday tradition. Rioting, angry protests, roads blocked, cars set on fire, graffiti sprayed, glass broken, fa la la la la, lah la la la.

But you mustn’t say so, because the left isn’t violent or extreme. Just like you mustn’t point out that Linda Sarsour was knowing and deliberate in her word choice last week, hoping not only for the reaction that she got (anger on the right, knee-jerk defense of her from the left) but also in service of her stated goal of integrating Islamic ideals like sharia and jihad into acceptable Western norms.

You can’t talk about that. If you do, you’re a bigot. (Or maybe you hate women, or perhaps, somehow, you just don’t want to hear from African Americans and therefore reject this foreign non-black woman’s backward religious beliefs? It gets confusing.) Sarsour can’t be bad or wrong because she’s a minority victim. And Hamburg can’t be on fire, because leftists aren’t violent.

Who are you going to believe? Your liberal betters, or your lying eyes?
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The Hamburg destruction is a product of the anti-capitalist left. It is the same mob that shows up for every G-20 meeting to flout their impotence. No doubt they are wearing clothes and shoes that were made by capitalists. Why the left embraces Sarsour and her ilk is still a puzzle. She is just using them as a front for her real agenda of imposing radical Islam on the whole world. It takes willful blindness by those who embrace her cause to ignore the threat she poses to them and to freedom.

"It continues. Have seen gunships firing and heard much activity in the last few hours."...
The Iraqi claim is plausible. It is just the kind of thing that could be expected from ISIS forces. ISIS is in a desperate fight and appears willing to pull down all those around them as they lose.

Some injuries were reported and more than a dozen people were arrested after opposing sides clashed at dueling pro- and anti-Trump rallies, Berkeley, Calif., police said.
The liberals engage in projection by calling Trump supporters fascists, when it is in fact, their supporters who are sparking the violence in Califonia. There is a strain of intolerance for other points of view that is enforced by people dressed in black and their faces covered. They physically attack Trump supporters or other conservatives. These people may wear black but the are the Brownshirts of liberal fascism.

Fuel Fix:
OPEC producers took another 153,000 barrels a day off the market in March as part of its bid to drain the world’s oil glut.

In the cartel’s monthly report released Wednesday, independent sources reported the group of oil-producing countries has cut output by 1.1 million barrels a day since December.

Last month, Libya’s output dropped by nearly 9 percent, and production edged lower in the United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, Nigeria, Iran, Angola and other countries. Saudi Arabia raised production by 41,000 barrels a day.

That effort has pushed oil prices above $50 a barrel in recent months, breathing life into U.S. oil patches like the Permian Basin. U.S. crude rose 16 cents on Wednesday to $53.56 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, as traders reacted to media reports that Saudi Arabia, the cartel’s de facto leader, wants to see OPEC continue production cuts into the second half of this year.

But even as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries works to slow…